Comment 54 for bug 243344

I have the similar (maybe the same) problem, but unrelated to totem: from time to time scim-bridge crashes, leaving all my gnome-terminals, galeon, and the mini_commander_applet without the keyboard input. I can switch to the text console, and in "ps ax|grep scim" I see the following processes:

 3514 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-helper-manager
 3515 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk --display :0.0 -c socket -d --no-stay
 3517 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11 --no-stay -d

When I kill the scim-launcher process, all the processes get restarted, leading to the following "ps ax|grep scim" output:

 7204 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-helper-manager
 7205 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk --display :0.0 -c socket -d --no-stay
 7207 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11 --no-stay -d
 7209 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib64/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay -d
 7210 ? S 0:00 scim-bridge

and since then, the text input to gnome-terminal, galeon, and all the other GNOME apps works fine. The relevant part of .xsession-errors is probably the following one (altough I am not sure - I am writing this bug report some time after the last scim-bridge crash):

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Failed to receive messages at scim_bridge_client_read_and_dispatch ()
An IOException occurred at handle_message ()
Failed to receive messages at scim_bridge_client_read_and_dispatch ()
An IOException occurred at handle_message ()
Failed to receive messages at scim_bridge_client_read_and_dispatch ()
An IOException occurred at handle_message ()
Failed to receive messages at scim_bridge_client_read_and_dispatch ()
An IOException occurred at handle_message ()
Failed to receive messages at scim_bridge_client_read_and_dispatch ()
An IOException at scim_bridge_client_change_focus ()
An IOException occurred at scim_bridge_client_imcontext_focus_out ()
The messenger is now down
** Message: Active session changed
** Message: Active session changed
An IOException at scim_bridge_messenger_receive_message (): Connection reset by peer
Failed to receive messages at scim_bridge_client_read_and_dispatch ()
An IOException at scim_bridge_client_register_imcontext ()
Cannot register the IMContexts...
nt_register_imcontext ()
Cannot register the IMContexts...
The messenger is now down
Loading socket Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.8

Starting SCIM as daemon ...
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
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I think this started in F11 for me (I use scim-bridge for a longer time). Also, my system is x86_64, so the Platform: attribute of this bug can be changed to "All".